Veren fladderden en kwastten zwaaiend als een windvlaag die over de trappen van de kathedraal van St. Johannes de Divine op zaterdagavond, 31 mei, honderden queer “pelgrims” en hun bondgenoten verzamelden en hun bondgenoten verzamelden zich in de legendarische Upper West Side Church voor een Pride -viering als geen andere, elk gekleed in een monochrome outfit met een grillige medievale flair.
The event marked the second annual “Pilgrimage to be proud‘Co -organized by the Greedy farmerA Tiktok and Instagram personality that comes from “Medieval New York” and artist Yuliya tsukerman. After the exciting success of last year’s sold -out event with 500 attendees, the celebration was quickly sold out with 200 extra attendees of this year’s festivities.
Tyler, who goes through the name ‘The Greedy Peasant’, has picked up hundreds of thousands of followers about Instagram and Tiktok picked up by describing the antics of what he calls a ‘queer medieval fever dream’. This includes dividing on the Drama between medieval relics” to show All the ways in which a Catholic can enjoy the leaves that were published on Palm Sunday, Suggest ideas For Freaky Saint-theme Halloween costumes and talk about all things tassels.
Inside the Episcopal Church on Saturday, Attendees Marveled at Each Other’s Sartorial Creations While Eating Snacks, Drinking Wine, Buzzing Around Craft Tables, And Enteres Into a Raffle for a Range of Tours of the Cathedral, WACK, And Papier-Mâch, and Papier-Mâch, and Papier-Mâch, and Papier-Mâch, and Papier-Mâch, and Papier-Mâch, and Papier-Mâch, and Papier-Mâch Its Tapestry Collection.
A series of artists – from Drag Queens and other professional clothing designers to those who had only recently picked up a needle and thread – were inspired by the unique mix of the greedy farmers of pouring pleasure in the oddities of the Catholic tradition with an insatiable appetite for idiosyncratic art history. Some those present used his “patented” Saint Snap system, for which he defined Hyperallergic as a “a durable graceful application system in which farmers attach decorations to Snaps” to attach brushes of all colors and sizes to their robes; Others offered their own twist to the loosely medieval theme, from Dragon and Frog costumes inspired by tapestries and manuscripts into protest signs that demanded ‘the 100 years of war’.
Before becoming Serenadeer TranscendA trans- and gender fluid classical choir, which is located in New York, were warmly welcome by the very rougher dr. Patrick Malloy, the dean of the cathedral. Father Malloy was in the committee of the Bishop’s Church to create rites to bless gay players in 2012And the previous day had actually performed a wedding ceremony of the same sex that has been allowed in the church since 2015.
Father Malloy told Hyperallergic that he increased his efforts to plan the programming of the robust Pride Month after the Supreme Court was destroyed Roe v. Wade In 2022. “If you start attacking women, it won’t take long before you start to attack gays.”
Many live with trauma through experiences of Christian fundamentalist homophobia, especially in a time of increased conservatism. Indeed, some attendees consciously giggled to the suggestion of Father Malloy that they would usually not be caught anywhere near a church, even as hospitable as St. John the Divine. Others identify themselves as Christians alienated from the church, such as friends Jane Kotapish and Darcy Draeger. They say that greedy farmer offered a way to re -connection with the religious identities they had grown up.
“I really made contact with iconography and humor,” said Draeger, who lambed in her tribute to the image of St. Agnes in the Catholic children’s book The picture book of Saints.
“He is a bit like a bridge for people who feel different because of their own faith,” said Kotapish about greedy farmers. “He brings joy back in it.”
For the greedy farmer himself, the exuberance of his ensembles is his own form of liberation and expression.
“When I was a farmer’s child and had to wear ‘church clothing’ every Sunday, the Kaki pants and button-down shirts felt the most boring possible outfit option,” he said Hyperallergic . “And with this event I wanted people to get the chance to come to a church in the most exciting ensembles they could create that really reflected their identity.”
One participant, Hilary, spoke about the inspiration behind her light day blo-blue ensemble from Tulle and Vlinders: “For some reason I thought:” The world is so dark … I just want to be butterflies. A cloud of butterflies. “Her friend Mel, also draped in blue tulle, chimde in it:” And I just wanted to be a cloud! ”
At the end of the evening, the large hall of the historic cathedral was lit in the six traditional pride colors and crowned at the altar with the pastel -color blue and pink lights of the transvlag. Fabullessly finished color to team leaders, the pilgrims screamed on the basis of the color of their outfits in a large procession in the order of the rainbow, so that the sanctuary filled in the night in a glorious mosaic of strange medieval joy.
